How Cloud Web Hosting Operates

Essentially, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves distinct website hosting services like disk storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous stacks of leading edge web servers. Each different service pack creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there must be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will beget the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting hoax. Very modern these days.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is highly perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting vendors" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A big disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting industry there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such administrative body. This is why the hosting providers speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud web hosting they in fact can furnish.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting firms

If a cPanel-based hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, numerous web servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting retailer to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, since establishing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a predicament, lots of cash has to be invested too. Mountains of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast obstacle.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP GUIs (working with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first of all you must develop one. In-house. Secondly, you must construct the Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to work on a single server exclusively. All website hosting services (web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single web server where these respective single-server website hosting systems and website hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to make an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will run faultlessly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible part of it. Suitable examples of custom developed cloud website hosting systems with custom developed web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Green Lit Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimum investment required, only for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so blue... and nearly cloudless!